String Literal to Blob

[Steve Holden]

Jason Scheirer wrote:
[...]
> 
> There _is_ a way to embed image data in HTML that is supported by
> every major browser. It is ugly. Using the RFC 2397 (http://
> www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397) spec for data URLs you could go
> 
> '<img src="data:image/jpg;base64,%s">' % base64.b64encode(image_data)
> 
> Obviously you need to import the base64 module somewhere in your code
> and base64-encoded data is about a third larger than it would be
> otherwise, so embedding anything particularly large is going to be a
> huge pain and affect page load times pretty badly.

This is hardly likely to help someone who hasn't yet grasped the concept 
of referencing graphics and prefers to write database output to disk to 
serve it statically. But who knows, maybe it will ...

regards
  Steve
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